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Events on April 18

• 1521 Martin Luther is questioned again at the Diet of Worms and, as on the previous day, refuses to recant any of his 95 theses.
• 1864 The Prussians under Frederick Charles of Prussia storm the Düppel fortifications after an almost five-week siege, thereby inflicting the decisive defeat on Denmark in the German-Danish War.
• 1906 In a severe earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.8 and the resulting fires, the Californian city of San Francisco is devastated. Between 700 and 3,000 people are killed. A distinct fault line forms along the San Andreas Fault.
• 1912 The Carpathia arrives in the port of New York with 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster, where it is awaited by thousands of people who hail the crew as heroes.
• 1926 The history of radio broadcasting records the first transmission of a German football international. In Düsseldorf, the German team and the Netherlands draw 4:2.
• 1947 With the largest non-nuclear explosion to date, the British military destroys the bunker installations on the island of Helgoland. The explosion permanently changes the island's appearance.
• 1956 In Monaco, Prince Rainier III and the US-American actress Grace Kelly marry in a civil ceremony.
• 1986 The German premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats takes place at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg. The production will run in Hamburg for almost 15 years.
• 1996 The German association Schulen ans Netz is founded. It is created on the initiative of Federal Education Minister Jürgen Rüttgers and Deutsche Telekom CEO Ron Sommer and is intended to help improve the meager technical equipment of the schools.
• 2005 Adobe Inc. announces the purchase of Macromedia for 3.4 billion US dollars. The transaction is completed on December 3, 2005.
• 2005 The conclave to elect the successor to the late Pope John Paul II begins in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. With 115 cardinals eligible to vote, it is the largest conclave to date.
• 2017 In the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal against FC Bayern Munich, Cristiano Ronaldo scores a hat-trick in the 4:2 second-leg victory, becoming the first player to reach 100 goals in the Champions League. A week earlier, he scored a brace in the 2:1 first-leg victory, becoming the first player to reach 100 goals in UEFA club competitions.

Born on April 18

• 1852 Friedrich von Thiersch, German architect
• 1884 Ludwig Meidner, German painter, poet and graphic artist
• 1890 Alexander Granach, Austrian-American theater and film actor
• 1892 Bolesław Bierut, Polish politician
• 1960 Neo Rauch, German painter
• 1970 Esther Schweins, German actress
• 1971 David Tennant, British actor
• 1980 Yangzom Brauen, Swiss actress, author and director
• 1990 Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer
• 1992 Dzsenifer Marozsán, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „18. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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